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Most individual investors don't try and replicate the S&P 500. There are low cost ETFs that will do that for them like SPY.
Instead they would rather focus on stocks they think have a chance to outperform; Smaller, growthier, Risk On'ier stocks. Unfortunately, that has been the wrong place to be most of 2017...but not Friday.
Here is the scorecard:
+0.73% for Russell 2000 vs. +0.16% for S&P 500 = 4 to 1 victory
And Thursday was also a solid advantage for these stocks. Hopefully this trend has legs which is why my portfolio is overweight these types of stocks. You can do the same by loading up on Zacks #1 Ranked Strong Buy stocks.
Best,
Steve Reitmeister
Executive Vice President, Zacks Investment Research
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